>I have several albums that say "Various Artist" on the spine and so I've put >that as the >album artist as that's how I choose to have them catalogued. Every >track on these albums usually has a different artist so they've been >set as the artist on each track. Occasionally there is a compiler or DJ >who is the album artist - "Coldcut", "John Peel" etc. They are the album >artist but are not an artist associated with any track. > >WMP just takes my word for whatever I put as album artist. If I tag one >as "Various Arrrrtists" it would appear seperately because WMP is stupid >- but I very rarely do that because I am not too stupid. WMP just does >what I say. > Nothing wrong with doing that, they just aren't automatically considered compilation albums as a result of adding album artist tags. Which is the same as for WMP and any other less capable app.
If you hadn't entered album artist tags, they would automatically be considered compilations, and SC would have album artist = Various Artists. SC copes with both ways of organising music tags. >So I do _no_ frigging for WMP. I do plenty for SC though - in this way >I get my albums to appear (just about) as I want. > Frigs such as? Phil _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
